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Do you remember when you purchased your first home computer— and if so what do you use it for? Geeks and accountants drove the early sales, but in 1993— BOOM! This happened…

It was called Mosaic — the first web browser. And you know what happened next. The world tilted on its axis. Did You See It Coming? The killer app, and the catalyst, for the mass adoption and use of home computers, was the Mosaic web browser. We’ll look back in history for clues that could set up, like the Mosaic browser for home computing, the “Killer Apps” for blockchains, the Apps that will bring awareness of blockchains to the public.

Each week we’ll be discussing potential triggers for the mass adoption of blockchain technology.

What if the catalyst for the mass adoption and rollout of blockchains has not happened yet?

Week 25

Contact Left- Bitcoin Cash

In mid-November 2018, Bitcoin and the top-ranked alt-coins are in sideways moves in a bear market.

Google the search term “crypto today,” and you’ll be served up the factoids and opinions on what’s driving the cryptocurrency market. Sometimes the news is useful, but most of the time it’s a reflection of the market price action. A move up, and the news is good, a move down and it’s bad.

Is there another way?

Week 26

EMOTIONAL RESCue

As Bitcoin goes under the hammer, is a major change in the cryptocurrency markets taking place?

When a cryptocurrency market breaks to the downside on huge volume (Bitcoin on 14th of November 2018 is such a day) and closes in the lower third of the day’s range, it can be used as a proxy for a supply and demand imbalance. Yes, you might be thinking that this is obvious, but, for the most consistent investors and speculators, it’s what happens next over the following days or weeks that’s most important.

Week 27

Powerball

For cryptocurrencies to replace cash does anything have to change?

Innovator and early majority types might be rolling their eyes, thinking that investing in cryptocurrencies is easy, but if you take the time to ask, next time your socialising with friends, you’ll find that cryptocurrencies, for the majority of people, seems confusing and complicated.

As cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies travel along the hype curve, between the initial trigger and mass adoption, can things stay the same or does something have to change?

Week 28

Vital Signs

Is Bitcoin dead or just waiting for a catalyst?

When an authority figure, like a senior investment advisor from a leading investment bank, appears on TV and confidently tells you the reason why, in hindsight, a market has gone up or down, it’s not easy to ignore their advice. After all, they are the acknowledged authority, and they are supposed to be experts in their field.

With Bitcoin and the leading alt-coins hard down at the end of 2018, some establishment experts are confidently forecasting the future of Bitcoin, but how accurate is their analysis, and do they always get it right?

Week 29

Code Yellow

Crowd behaviour at highs and lows and what the 5% do instead when trading Cryptocurrencies.

As 2018 draws to a close, cryptocurrencies have been routed. But while the prices have been getting hit hard, one behaviour pattern is constant.

If you study the history of speculative markets, from Tulip mania in the 1630s to Bitcoin in 2017, you’ll find one common denominator. FOMO.

Week 30

Crowd Control

What advertising and market bubbles have in common

What advertising and market bubbles have in common

The public hears about a new technology. It’s everywhere. Every time they watch the news, every time they use Youtube, Twitter, or Facebook, everyone seems to be talking about this thing called Bitcoin — and yet they have a problem. They have no idea what it is.

In 1994, George Loewenstein, a behavioural economist at Carnegie Mellon University ran a series of experiments in an attempt to answer this question: What makes people interested?

Week 31

Steampunk

Comparison of Industries: Automobile vs Cryptocurrency

It’s ten years since the genesis block of Bitcoin was mined. Ten years after the mass-production of motor vehicles started in the 1890s, the majority of new startup companies were manufacturing steam-powered cars. If you could travel back in time and land in the United States in 1906, you wouldn’t find it so easy to figure out which technology would become dominant.

Week 32

Sprial

Indicator settings don’t influence trend direction.

The majority of traders and investors use technical indicators to time their trades, yet few take the time to understand the root cause of trending prices. Fewer still understand the strategies used by the 5%, the most consistent group of traders and speculators, as prices move between the lines.

Week 35

Choke Point

The inconvenient truth: Most people new to the world of speculation and trading start defining trends with indicators and signals from the past. They don’t take the time to learn why trends begin, how trends move through time, and how they end.

Technical analysis is often used to show how easy it is to be successful in hindsight; however, the reality, for most, is different when they attempt to use a TA system in real time.

Week 33

Long Tail

Are cryptocurrencies immune from the Power Law?

In 1906, an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto discovered what is now known as the 80:20 rule, when he noticed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people. The power law is everywhere. 80% of the revenue from Hollywood is made by 20% of the movies. 80% of global internet traffic goes to 20% of the sites. The power law is at work in the cryptocurrency markets too — the only question is which coins will survive?

Week 34

Top Ticked

Cryptocurrency Trading: The majority look in the wrong place. They get in late, and out early.

As the public’s interest in the cryptocurrency market continues to dwindle, and as cryptocurrencies continue their inexorable slide towards to the trough of disillusionment, the 5%, the most consistent speculators and investors, aren’t reading comment and quote articles — they’re watching something else — supply and demand. Instead of ploughing through endless social media tweets and posts, sometimes great lessons can be found in popular culture.

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